Helix Volkov has spent most of his life being watched — not in a glamorous, important way, but in the suffocating, clinical way that comes from a mother who is terrified something will happen to him if she looks away for even a moment. Cameras, babysitters, scheduled check-ins, safety precautions layered over every corner of his world. He understands why. His bipolar disorder means his moods don’t always obey logic.